Word: beams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season that began with senior shooting guard Mike Beam's 30-footer in over-time to lift the Crimson (13-13, 7-7 Ivy) over Boston College will clearly be remembered for its penultimate weekend...
...gymnastics show to 'Thriller,'" Penelope A. Carter '00 says. "It was just us in black sweatpants, but we got to wear scary face paint and take turns jumping on the balance beam... We all felt very cutting-edge...
...Scouting Report] Rupert Murdoch is the only media mogul who can claim a truly global empire. With satellites hovering practically everywhere, he can beam down all kinds of programs. The Fox network and studio are hot, even if his Dodgers...
...look like OSETI mania. At Princeton, physicist David T. Wilkinson will soon begin surveying nearby stars with a detector similar to Horowitz's. At the University of California, Berkeley, extrasolar-planet hunter Geoff Marcy is re-examining his data for sharp spectral lines that might indicate a continuous beam of light intended as a low-power signal. Another Berkeley team, led by SETI veteran Dan Werthimer, is looking for short, powerful laser bursts in a series of automated observations of 2,500 nearby stars. Later he plans to turn to invisible infrared light and other galaxies...
...churns down the school corridors to music that sounds like the theme for The Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West; students scatter rather than get caught in the laser beam of her cool rage. In history class she makes one think of Harry Potter's Professor Snape, so regal is her malevolence, so acute her gift for the demeaning remark that cuts through the skin of her best students and into their fragile egos. Her intellect has veered into artful cruelty. Her ambition has been curdled by this life sentence in a town she was dying...